Boyd Rosene and Associates, Inc. v. Kansas Municipal Gas Agency, an Interlocal Municipal Agency City of Winfield, Kansas, a Municipality

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• concluding that under Oklahoma law, attorney's fees would be considered substantive in a choice-of-law analysis, and thus, the state's law that governs the substantive issues in the case also applies to decide whether attorney's fees are recoverable
• concluding that under Oklahoma law, attorney's fees would be considered substantive in a choice-of-law analysis, and thus, the state's law that governs the substantive issues in the case also applies to decide whether attorney's fees are recoverable
• noting that, under Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 78 (1938), a federal court sitting in diversity applies the substantive law of the forum state
• noting the distinction and finding the latter category more related to judicial administration
• Preemption is “[u]nlike choice-of-law principles which are a zero-sum game (either state A or state B’s law will be applied).”

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